A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
HENRY FIELDINGWe must eat to live, and not live to eat.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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